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From: Paul M Foster on 27 Jan 2010 21:40
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:55:46PM -0600, Skip Evans wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented
> characters, like e and u with those two little dots above
> them, with the regular e and u characters.

FWIW, those two dots are called an "umlaut".

Paul

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marcus_Gna=DF?= on 28 Jan 2010 06:17
On 28.01.2010 03:40, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:55:46PM -0600, Skip Evans wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented
>> characters, like e and u with those two little dots above
>> them, with the regular e and u characters.
>
> FWIW, those two dots are called an "umlaut".
>
> Paul
>

FWIW, the whole letters ������ are called "Umlaute" (umlauts).
The two dots above *these* letters are "Umlautzeichen" (umlaut marks).
But two dots above an e or i are called "Trema" (diacritic mark).

Marcus
From: tedd on 28 Jan 2010 09:15
At 12:17 PM +0100 1/28/10, Marcus Gnaß wrote:
>On 28.01.2010 03:40, Paul M Foster wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:55:46PM -0600, Skip Evans wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented
>>> characters, like e and u with those two little dots above
>>> them, with the regular e and u characters.
>>
>> FWIW, those two dots are called an "umlaut".
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
>FWIW, the whole letters ÄäÖöÜü are called "Umlaute" (umlauts).
>The two dots above *these* letters are "Umlautzeichen" (umlaut marks).
>But two dots above an e or i are called "Trema" (diacritic mark).
>
>Marcus

On what other list could we learn that?

Thanks,

tedd

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From: Robert Cummings on 28 Jan 2010 09:28
tedd wrote:
> At 12:17 PM +0100 1/28/10, Marcus Gnaß wrote:
>> On 28.01.2010 03:40, Paul M Foster wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:55:46PM -0600, Skip Evans wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented
>>>> characters, like e and u with those two little dots above
>>>> them, with the regular e and u characters.
>>> FWIW, those two dots are called an "umlaut".
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>> FWIW, the whole letters ÄäÖöÜü are called "Umlaute" (umlauts).
>> The two dots above *these* letters are "Umlautzeichen" (umlaut marks).
>> But two dots above an e or i are called "Trema" (diacritic mark).
>>
>> Marcus
>
> On what other list could we learn that?

A linguistics list I'd wager.

:B

Cheers,
Rob.
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